You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

Portability should be the default.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

Thus my faith grew that my beautiful dream for the future would become reality after all, even though this might require long years.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

Once your motivation is killed, it's kind of hard to revive it and bring it back to life.

Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions.

Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth.

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

They [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.